Mass Effect (video game)/Characters/Party Members: Difference between revisions

** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Being a quarian, she is ''required'' to know about advanced subjects like starship engineering. And even among quarians she is considered an expert.

** {{spoiler|[[Four-Star Badass]]}}

* [[Battle Couple]]: with Shepard if romanced in ''2''

* [[Beautiful All Along]]

* [[Big Red Button]]: Though one doesn't really show up, [[Lampshade Hanging|she still points out the inadvisability of pushing them]].

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Quarians are one of only two species(the other being turians) that have a [[wikipedia:Chirality (chemistry)|dextro-amino acid based biology]]. As such, they can't consume any food or drink made for levo-amino acid biologies(humans, asari, salarian, krogan, etc.) without, at the least, not getting any nourishment from it; or at the most, having a fatal allergic reaction.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: Some people see this, with [[Loveable Rogue|Kasumi]] being Red Oni. Tali, [[Beware the Nice Ones|though she has her moments]], is kind, calm, and uses her [[The Engineer|considerable skills]] to aid others. Kasumi is upbeat, [[Genki Girl|energetic]], and uses her considerable talents for [[Classy Cat Burglar|thievery and espionage]].

** To further the point, Kasumi introduces herself as a fan of Shepard. Tali clearly is. So just how did she take some of Kasumi's initial offers?

* [[Break the Cutie]]: She suffers an emotional breakdown while investigating her trial. You can potentially give her comfort by hugging her.

** {{spoiler|Let the geth destroy the quarians in the third game. She commits suicide.}}

* [[Bubble Boy|Bubble Girl]]: Comes from a race of them. Their weak immune systems force them to live in their envoronmental suits constantly.

* [[But I Would Really Enjoy It]]: Tali is initially reluctant to sleep with Shepard, because their mutually [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Bizarre Alien Biologies]] would result in anything from allergic reaction, to drastic illness, to death for her. She ''assures'' you that this does not coincide with her desires.

* [[Cooldown Hug]]: [[Video Game Caring Potential|Shepard has the option of giving this to her after]] {{spoiler|she finds her father's dead body.}}

* [[Covert Pervert]]: It's fairly obvious during the second game that Tali has secretly lusted after MaleShep since practically day one. And the second he shows '''any''' romantic interest in her, the first thing she makes clear is that she wants him to deflower her (with more subtle words).

** And to continue Lair goodness, {{spoiler|the same log as the 'nerve stim' program reveals she downloaded a video on 'Human Courtship and Mating'.}}

*** It should be noted that she downloads the vid regardless of whether Shepard is male [[Les Yay|or female]].

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: A rather more literal example than most, both her visor and hood being purple in color.

* {{spoiler|[[A Date with Rosie Palms|Nerve Stimulation Implants]]: revealed in Shadow Broker DLC she had them, then removed then reinstalled mutliple times before installed once aganin and upgrading them.}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: To wit:

* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: Gets flustered and does this after accidentally revealing her attraction to Shepard in the second game.

** Alternately, if neither she nor Garrus is romanced by Shepard, this is her reaction when {{spoiler|Shepard walks in on her and Garrus together...}}

* [[Disc One Nuke]]: In the first game, she was a ridiculously durable death machine with maxed out Electronics and "Quarian Machinist", which raised her shields to very high levels, and in the former's case let her sap the shields off any enemy in one go. It was very easy to max out both those skills very early in the game.

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: She resorts to this once or twice during the third game. It takes triple-filtered turian brandy introduced through an "emergency induction port".

{{quote|'''Shepard:''' That's a straw, Tali.

'''Tali:''' [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|Emergency.]] [[Insistent Terminology|Induction.]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Port.]] }}

* [[Enemy Mine]]: What she sees working with Legion as.

** She also hates Cerberus and makes it clear that she's only there [[Undying Loyalty|because Shepard is.]]

* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: She became a love interest in the second game and her fanbase rejoiced. Except for the ones who were disappointed she wasn't a love interest for Female Shepard.

* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Her feelings for Male Shep. Kelly, Kasumi, Liara, and {{spoiler|Javik}} can all comment on it.

* [[The Faceless]]: Justified. Her species has a weak immune system that means she must wear a special suit at all times.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Sometimes slips into this, the Geth having become a major [[Berserk Button]] for the quarians.

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: The quarians' [[Planet of Hats|hat]], but Tali is especially so.

{{quote|'''Tali''': Give me some eezo and a circuit board and I'll have it making precision jumps.}}

{{quote|'''Ken:''' Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful bucket.. The whole suit is lovely, quite snug in all the right places...

'''Tali:''' You ''know'' I can hear you! }}

* [[Lost Forever]]: like Garrus, link up with her in ''2'' or forever hold your peace.

* [[Even Heroes Have Heroes]]: Towards Shepard. Upped in the sequel. [[Up to Eleven|BIG time.]]